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FAIR HAVEN: STARS IN ONE’S EARS

February 27, 2013 – 10:45 am

Celluloid earrings featuring James Dean are among the items included in the going-out-of-business sale at Nature’s Emporium. (Photo by Danielle Tepper. Click to enlarge) By DANIELLE TEPPER Welcome to Window Shopping the Green, a new regular feature for redbankgreen. The idea here is simply to call out interesting items that catch our eye as we [...]

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WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?

December 27, 2012 – 8:22 am

Last week’s Where triggered memories of a pony named Tom.

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TIMES GIVES SOUPMEISTER A WARM HUG

November 12, 2012 – 12:37 pm

The Metropolitan section of Sunday’s New York Times gave Gary Sable’s 170-square-foot Red Bank takeout eatery, That Hot Dog Place, some love on Sunday. ‘Soupmeister’ Sable, featured by redbankgreen in 2006, was spotlighted in an article about places in the New York region to get a great bowl of soup.  (Click to enlarge).

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FROM WHERE HE STANDS, IT’S A FULL HOUSE

August 21, 2012 – 1:14 pm

Accompanied only by the sound of passing traffic, Red Bank’s Michael Evans, aka ‘Aizen G,’ polished his pipes and his moves before an imaginary audience at Riverside Gardens Park Sunday shortly before heading to an open-mic night at Jamian’s on Monmouth Street. redbankgreen happened to be in the cheap seats…

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FOOD FOR… SPORTS GEAR AND FIELD LIGHTS

July 20, 2012 – 8:50 am

Upcoming: Thursday, August 16 Red Bank Flavour, a culinary campaign driven by the borough’s restaurants and food stores, presents “A Night on the Navesink: A Flavour Summer Soiree” at the Molly Pitcher Inn on Thursday, August 16. Held at Red Bank’s newly renovated riverfront hotel, the evening, co-sponsored by hotel owner J.P. Barry Hospitality, will [...]

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A SOLSTICE SUNSET

June 20, 2012 – 10:09 pm

8:24 p.m.: Closing out the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, the sun descended over the Navesink River, as seen from Red Bank Marina. (Photo by Stacie Fanelli. Click to enlarge)

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SHREWSBURY JUMPS ABOARD FOR SUMMER

June 20, 2012 – 8:41 pm

5:30 p.m.: Rasheen Johnson, left, of Red Bank, with Matthew Huston of Shrewsbury at Patterson Park in Shrewsbury. Johnson said his goals this summer were to “lose weight, get some color, feel good.” Still with the jumping? Well, yeah. After all, this is the first day of summer, and the longest day of the year. [...]

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CRAZEE ABOUT SOMETHING COLD AND SWEET

June 20, 2012 – 7:03 pm

4:50 p.m. Among the dozen or more ice cream junkies seated outside Crazee’s Institute of Fine Ice Cream and Nuts in Rumson at this hour were Duncan Straine, 6, and his brother, Hugh, 8, of Fair Haven, with a scoop of chocolate chip cookie dough and a milkshake, respectively. The kids spent the day at their [...]

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THUMBS UP FOR THE REFRESHING OCEAN

June 20, 2012 – 6:40 pm

4:31 p.m.: Amelia Liberatore, Sarah Pyne and Vanessa Romano, all of Middletown, head home after six hours at the Anchorage beach in Sea Bright. They stayed in the water most of that time after finding tanning in the mid-90-degree heat uncomfortable to the point of pain. “It’s annoying once you stay too long,” Romano said. [...]

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KEEPING BUCK AND VIOLET COOL AND CLEAN

June 20, 2012 – 6:28 pm

3:20 p.m.: Pudgie Conroy feeding Violet, a calf, at Sheep’s Run farm on Rumson Road in Rumson. (Photos by Connor ‘Solstice’ Soltas. Click to enlarge) “Okay, Stinky. That’s it.” The one-year-old calf’s name is Violet. But to Pudgie Conroy, a Middletown native turned full-time stable tenant in Rumson, calling her bovine charge “Stinky” – not [...]

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NO SAND, NO PROBLEM

June 20, 2012 – 5:50 pm

3:49 p.m. Dave Dries doesn’t like air conditioning, and a day of record heat doesn’t faze him. With temperatures in the mid-90s, Dries, of Lincroft had Red Bank’s Marine Park nearly to himself when Sol Searching visited Wednesday afternoon. Nestled in the shade with the famous Navesink view a glance away, he spent the day reading [...]

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SUMMER’S ARRIVAL LIFTS RED BANK SPIRITS

June 20, 2012 – 4:43 pm

1:15 p.m.: On request, Jay Overton, of Shrewsbury, took to the sky with a cool, classic jumping style at Gianni’s Pizza on Maple Avenue. “Summer is my favorite time of year,” he says. More evidence of what happens when Sol Searching asks perfectly normal adults to “jump like you’re nine years old and just got [...]

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NOT SO HOT: DOWNTOWN SHOPPING

June 20, 2012 – 3:48 pm

12:41 p.m. With temperatures in the mid-90s, shops in downtown Red Bank were losing the battle with Mother Nature Wednesday, with some reporting far fewer customers than on an average day. Billy Anania, who works at Jack’s Music Shoppe, attributed the lighter traffic to the beach weather, and an employee at Funk and Standard said [...]

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SMASHING INTO TREES BUT KEEPING COOL

June 20, 2012 – 2:23 pm

12:24 p.m. Molly Fallon of Middletown might have be doing little more than crashing into virtual trees in a racing game at Yestercades, but she’s just happy to be keeping cool indoors as the temperature outside pushes past 90 degrees. The retro gaming arcade on Broad Street in Red Bank was the first place Molly’s [...]

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A LONG, COOL LUNCH BREAK

June 20, 2012 – 1:51 pm

11:14 a.m. In an effort to help those without AC in their homes escape the sweltering heat, Lunch Break is staying open an extra three hours past its usual lunch hour Wednesday. Games and television will be provided until 4 p.m. so those who need to can stay cool, said executive assistant Millie Jeter. “These people are like [...]

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